Today's Dance Edit: How dance can literally heal us

May 20, 2020

"I call it the sort of holy communion between the performer and the audience. That’s something that as much as we try to replicate virtually, right now, there’s nothing like."
—Broadway icon Audra McDonald on why online performances will never replace live theater

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*Live updates: Follow The Dance Edit on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news on COVID-19's impact on the dance world.*

Cleo Parker Robinson shares her firsthand experience of how dance can—literally—heal us. (Dance Magazine)
San Francisco Ballet's primary venue postponed renovations that would have left the company unable to perform for much of 2021, COVID-19 restrictions or no. (San Francisco Classical Voice)
Choreographer Wayne McGregor offers his quarantine culture recommendations, from Bananagrams to, yes, "Tiger King." (Evening Standard)
Watch noted dance obsessive Jennifer Garner dance around her laundry room. (Women's Health)

#TFW you put on your face for the first time in a month and realize...you still got it.
(Mark Kanemura photographed by Joe Toreno for Dance Spirit)

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